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Ultrathin Alternating Copolymer Nanotubes with Readily Tunable Surface Functionalities |
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| Authors: | Jianxin Chen Dr Chunyang Yu Dr Zengqian Shi Songrui Yu Prof Zhongyuan Lu Wengfeng Jiang Meng Zhang Prof Wei He Prof Yongfeng Zhou Prof Deyue Yan |
| Institution: | 1. School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240 (P. R. China);2. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering, University of Tennessee, 303 Ferris Hall, 1508 Middle Drive, Knoxville, TN 37996 (USA);3. Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130023 (P. R. China) |
| Abstract: | Well‐defined ultrathin nanotubes (30 nm in diameter and of micrometer‐scale length) were generated through the self‐assembly of a novel alternative copolymer synthesized using an epoxy–thiol click‐chemistry reaction. The self‐assembly mechanism was investigated both by experiments and using dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) simulations. The obtained nanotubes can be readily functionalized with carboxy groups, amino groups, peptides, or other groups by simple modular click copolymerization. |
| Keywords: | alternating copolymers click chemistry copolymerization nanotubes self‐assembly |